Good Morning All. Clear, absolutely still and 67° out there this morning. Last two days of 90°+ temperatures coming up, so the pool will be shut down and covered on Friday. Rain in the forecast for Wednesday and now Thursday. While the water temperature is still in the 82°-83° range right now, it will drop rapidly with the cloudiness and the upcoming night time temperatures in the 50's starting Friday. We actually got about 2 1/2 extra weeks of good usage this season. There's no way I will pay to heat it, especially when you get out and the air is well below the water temperature.
Back to the doctor grind today, a quarterly appointment with my primary care guy at 9:15. After that, the prep for the capsule endoscopy scheduled for tomorrow. Similar to a colonoscopy prep but a little less severe. They want you empty before you swallow that capsule with the camera inside it. I won't go into the other yucky details, but it involves recovering that capsule. Interesting technology with the whole procedure, a camera and memory chip inside a capsule that takes 50,000 pictures of the inside of the small intestine. I assume that there is a power source in there too. Supposedly better and more accurate than the alternate of a capsule broadcasting to an external monitor strapped to you for 6 hours or so. Gee, I wonder if I get the video???
While on the medical front, I was informed that my sister-in-law has come down with Covid. Surprising because until she retired after the last school year, she was the principal of a Catholic grade school that
didn't go to remote learning during the panic. She never contracted it back then.
Yesterday was generally wasted on household chores, emptying the dishwasher, two loads of laundry, early prep of the Carnitas for supper, (searing and getting in the crock pot before church), and helping my wife program the new automatic robotic vacuum cleaner. Briefly saw some of the Cowboy's game in the afternoon, looks like they had the Patriots number quite handily. I don't really keep up with sports any more, but the Cowboys do look interesting this year. But, if I am going to be indoors for any reason, the train shed takes priority.
Yesterday out in the train shed, I ran trains. I ran what Santa Fe called a "sweeper train". That was a crew that went out and picked up all of the empty freight cars in a given area. It was more efficient for them to do that than have the local switching crew deal with the extra movements when spotting or picking up loaded cars.
I also checked out locations for my next upgrade/finishing project. I picked an area in Ft Wish next to one that I finished up early last year.
First step though is to install the overhead light fixture (that I bought last month) under the upper deck and paint more of the backdrop to the left.
Joe - Glad to read that you were not severely affected by the rains up there. When it actually rains here, 8" in a week is not unusual, but it is not a catastrophe like in the concrete jungle of NYC. Perhaps Mayor Addams can put illegal migrants to work cleaning the storm sewers! Wouldn't that cause an uproar?
Mike - Belated Happy Anniversary wishes.
Tom O - Best wishes for your son.
Todd - Happy Birthday to your wife. I like warm boobs as well.
Justin - Neat looking airplanes.
Karl - Love the doggie picture. She has a good home.
David - No more pets here either. Not a problem with leaving them alone in the house, but concerns about their care if something happens to either or both of us. One less concern in our daily lives.
Everybody have a great day.
